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• Tuesday, September 9, 2008 10:46 AM

  This IS how the right wing male perceives Palin

  Wow, seriously, some readers here need to stop worrying so much about being perceived as politically incorrect. Do you think the Republicans are worrying about this? I don't think so, and in the end that's how we're going to get beat again-- this isn't a nice game.

  News flash-- right wing males ARE titallated by Palin, and they do perceive her much as they would a dominatrix. My father, 70 plus years old, is ridiculously excited about her and sent me that doctored photo of her in the American flag bikini holding the rifle. Not because he was insulted by it, but because he was excited about it, and that picture represented everything he could hope for in a female political candidate. It's disgusting and shallow and stupid, and yes, an insult to women who respect themselves and have worked with integrity and honesty for everything they've got (myself included). But that is how these men think-- they don't respect women for their brains and abilities, they "respect" them for their bodies and their willingness to supplicate themselves to men. This article pokes fun at it, but it also brings the issue to the forefront.

  It might make some of us uncomfortable to accept that this mode of thinking exists and is a significant force. But it does and it is. The question is, now, what do we do about it? Play nice, or step up and throw some of our own punches?

  —BarkBark Read BarkBark's other letters
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